Book Reviews

Illiterati et uxorati. Manuscripts and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500

By Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers; London: Harvey Miller, 2000. vol. I: 413 pp, vol. II: 407 pp. ISBN 1-872501-41-9

Review published May 2002

The Latin that hovers above the more sober "Manuscripts and their Makers," on the title page of Richard and Mary Rouse’s magisterial two-volume work, is Francis Bacon’s dismissive description of the [...] Read More

Herri met de Bles: Studies and Explorations of the World Landscape Tradition

By Norman E. Muller, Betsy J. Rosasco, and James H. Marrow (eds.)

Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1998. 188 pp, 15 col. pls, 141 b&w illus. ISBN 0-943012-25-2

Review published November 2001

This volume unites ten papers presented at a symposium at Princeton University, October 13-14, 1995, in conjuction with the exhibition 'Anatomy of a Painting: The Road to Calvary by Herri met de [...] Read More

Painting on Light. Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein

By Barbara Butts and Lee Hendrix, with the assistance of Scott C. Wolf

[Cat. Exh., J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000. 330 pp, fully illus. in col., with b&w comparative illus. ISBN 0-89236-579-X (paper)

Review published November 2001

Sometimes an exhibition arrives with the shock of a new recognition. Just as in the case of the wonderful 1995 New York exhibition of Netherlandish stained glass, The Luminous Image, produced by [...] Read More

Two Publications on Pieter Bruegel

By various authors

Review published November 2001

Jürgen Müller, Das Paradox als Bildform. Studien zur Ikonologie Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999. 195 pp, 6 col. and 48 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7705-3191-4. ‘Pieter Bruegel [...] Read More

Hieronymus Bosch in Rotterdam, Two Catalogues

By various authors

Review published November 2001

J. Koldeweij, B. Vermet, P. Vandenbroeck, Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings [Cat. exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 1 – November 11, 2001]. Rotterdam: Museum [...] Read More

Hans von Aachen, 1552-1615

By Joachim Jacoby

(Monographien zur deutschen Barockmalerei, ed. by Rüdiger Klessmann). Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000. 329 pp, 28 col. and 106 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06287-4

Review published November 2001

At around age 22, as Karel van Mander tells us, Hans von Aachen left his native Cologne for Venice and offered his assistance to the artist Gaspar Rem, only to be mocked as a provincial who surely [...] Read More